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How to check your depth sensor

October 16th, 2025

Mark Chisnell recalls for Yachting World how a tiny calibration error with a boat’s new instrument system turned a tactical

October 5th, 2025

by Peter Swanson, Loose Cannon Ask an audience of cruisers to identify the optimal light for nighttime navigation, and most

September 20th, 2025

When the U.S. Coast Guard asked in May 2025 for public input on their proposal to discontinue some aids to

July 16th, 2025

Peter Isler, a two-time America’s Cup winner and navigator aboard Pyewacket in the 2025 Transpac Race from Los Angeles to

June 4th, 2025

When the US Coast Guard asked for public input regarding a proposed reduction in the northeast USA to navigational aids,

March 10th, 2025

by Andy Schell, SAIL magazine Since I was a kid and for my entire professional sailing career, I took for

January 22nd, 2025

From the southern tip of Texas, the coastline of the United States stretches eastward toward Florida’s Big Bend, then extending

December 4th, 2024

(December 4, 2024; Day 25) – As the solo skippers race across the southern oceans close to Antarctica, the Vendée

June 4th, 2024

The X account for Latest in Space offered the fun fact for how it was possible to sail from India

April 26th, 2024

NOAA electronic navigational charts (NOAA ENC®) are vector data sets that support all types of marine navigation. Originally designed for